 | You scored as Dr Gaius Baltar. You have betrayed humanity, for a blonde. However you’d rather people learnt to just get past that. After all, you never meant wipe out the human race. Luckily you are cleverer than everyone else, so no one will ever know. Even though they look at you with suspicion behind their eyes.
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is this troubling? or is it more troubling that i’m sneaky and untrustworthy, yet i don’t seem to be having pretend sex in my head. or am i? more than anything, i think this underscores for me how much more kickass bsg is than firefly. what is the whole fucking big deal over that show? is it just the ex-buffy fans getting a hardon for anything whedon does? i’ve watched three of the dvd’s so far, and while it’s not bad, it’s certainly not worthy of “the best show ever” accolades that they constantly give it. hell, i don’t even know if it’s better than rescue me. but “best show ever” starts competing in turf where shows like the prisoner or homicide: life on the street play, and honestly, it’s not even close.
maybe what bugs me the most is malcolm, the captain guy. because i keep thinking that he’s jason bateman. but he’s not.
the pfa had a series of classic kung fu films this weekend, in conjunction with the sf asian american film festival, entitled heroic grace: the chinese martial arts film, part 2. as opposed to the original series back in 2003, this one focused on shaw brothers films from the 70’s, after the first wave of martial arts films but before the 80’s hong kong renaissance took over.
the interesting thing that michael and i noticed was the difference between the styles of the fight scenes, where they fell into two types: one really gritty, bloody, and semi-realistic (at least in that people got hurt, injured, and were forced to fight on as best they could [dramatic music underscoring their heroic efforts, of course]) and the other where the fight scenes were much longer and more elaborate, featuring lots of people with different styles and/or weapons. the latter ended being stylized to such a point where it almost didn’t look like a fight anymore, but more of an elaborate acrobatic routine, the type of thing you’d see in a chinese opera. the funny thing is that you’d expect the trend to move towards the stylized fight scenes to a point where there’s a big backlash and then the gritty realistic scenes came later. however, the gritty ones were the films from the early seventies, and the stylized ones were from later in the decade (which of course lead to the crazy hyper-exaggerated wire work films of the eighties).
as for my favorite, was it the classic king boxer/five fingers of death which includes the “iron palm” move (remember the “buddha’s palm” from kung fu hustle?)? or maybe dirty ho with the great gordon liu, or the boxer from shantung, whose hatchet gang inspired the axe gang also in KFH? no, by far it has to be clans of intrigue. why? you’ve got to love a movie where it starts out, “the king of the vermillion clan was murdered,” and it shows a guy in the forest, and then a red figure leaps from nowhere and SHWICK! he’s dead! then two other leaders are similarly killed, and only 30 seconds have gone by so far. but really, how can you not love and be amazed by a film that features not only lesbian princesses, but vengeful hermaphrodites. that’s right, i said it: VENGEFUL HERMAPHRODITES.
finally got the gumption to try and upgrade movable type to 3.2. it looks like it’s working, but be prepared for everything to blow up at any moment. wheee!
BROOKLYN (March 22, 2006) —- A nude Britney Spears on a bearskin rug while giving birth to her firstborn marks a ‘first’ for Pro-Life. Pop-star Britney Spears is the “ideal” model for Pro-Life and the subject of a dedication at Capla Kesting Fine Art in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg gallery district, in what is proclaimed the first Pro-Life monument to birth, in April.
Dedication of the life-sized statue celebrates the recent birth of Spears’ baby boy, Sean, and applauds her decision of placing family before career. “A superstar at Britney’s young age having a child is rare in today’s celebrity culture. This dedication honors Britney for the rarity of her choice and bravery of her decision,” said gallery co-director, Lincoln Capla. The dedication includes materials provided by Manhattan Right To Life Committee.
“Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston,” believed Pro-Life’s first monument to the ‘act of giving birth,’ is purportedly an idealized depiction of Britney in delivery. Natural aspects of Spears’ pregnancy, like lactiferous breasts and protruding naval, compliment a posterior view that depicts widened hips for birthing and reveals the crowning of baby Sean’s head.
The monument also acknowledges the pop-diva’s pin-up past by showing Spears seductively posed on all fours atop a bearskin rug with back arched, pelvis thrust upward, as she clutches the bear’s ears with ‘water-retentive’ hands.
“Britney provides inspiration for those struggling with the ‘right choice’,” said artist Daniel Edwards, recipient of a 2005 Bartlebooth award from London’s The Art Newspaper. “She was number one with Google last year, with good reason —- people are inspired by the beauty of a pregnant woman,” said Edwards.
Capla Kesting denies the statue was developed from a rumored bootleg Britney Spears birth video. The artist admits to using references that include the wax figure of a pole-dancing Britney at Las Vegas’ Madame Tussauds and ‘Britney wigs’ characterizing various hairstyles of the pop-princess from a Los Angeles hairstylist. And according to gallery co-director, David Kesting, the artist studied a bearskin rug from Canada “to convey the commemoration of the traditional bearskin rug baby picture.”
An appropriate location for permanent installation of “Monument to Pro-Life” by Mother’s Day is being sought by the gallery.
i go to my car parked catty-corner from my house to run some errands and then go to a work event down in sunnyvale, to find that someone sliced the top again and broke into my car. thanks a fucking lot. again, they didn’t really get anything, because i don’t really keep anything in there.
things they took this time that they didn’t before:
i have to say that i’m really pissed off. probably because 1. it was practically in front of my house and 2. i just replaced the top back in september. fucking brand new. and now it’s trashed for about $20 worth of crap.
if you see some guy wearing a headset trying to read a map while squeaking with fresh breath, feel free to kick his ass for me.
i’m in denver for work. i fly in last night. it’s 22 degrees cold and snowy. when i arrive at the rental car, i find that they’ve given me a free upgrade to my midsize.
a ford mustang.
in the snow.
brilliant.
yeah, yeah, i was in tahoe for three days. i’ll talk about that later.
but let’s be clear about something. there’s no way in hell that crash was the best picture of the year. you can take crash and throw in all five nominees for best picture from last year and COMBINED they still WOULDN’T BE AS GOOD AS brokeback mountain.
i don’t know if it’s true that hollywood loves movies about LA, or if it was a bandwagon backlash, or maybe the fact that half of the academy was in crash so half of them voted for themselves, but it’s just wrong. hell, i don’t know if crash was even better than good night, and good luck.
